1900: First Forage

". . . he had cattle and he cut beaver hay ... He made a living.î
-John Joe Turner on the early 1900s at the Baldwin farm

Pioneers coined the term beaver hay to describe lush meadows of grasses and sedges growing in abandoned drained beaver ponds. Long known as a good hunting ground for deer, moose and bear, the meadows were a ready source of forage for hungry livestock.

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